Last week CleanTECH San Diego member OSIsoft hosted its 25th Annual Users Conference in San Francisco. More and more we read about the benefits and need to collect and use “big data.” In the CleanTECH San Diego world of managing large utility, infrastructure, and building...

For more than 12 years, efforts have been underway to obtain approval for a trash-to-energy facility. Meanwhile landfills are reaching capacity, and disposal costs are increasing. Yet environmentalists continue to block the project out of fear of air quality impacts and a concern that trash-to-energy...

On Feb. 23, CleanTECH San Diego hosted the first official side event of the Climate Leadership Conference, a “Smart City Infrastructure” Presentation & Demonstration Tour at the new San Diego Central Library downtown.
Local CleanTECH San Diego members joined attendees of the Climate Leadership Conference from across the...

Feb. 19-20, Cleantech San Diego, OSIsoft, Qualcomm, Downtown San Diego Partnership, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), and the Port of San Diego, visited Microsoft Headquarters in Seattle, Wash. for a two-day meeting to discuss "The City as a System" project. Smart City San Diego launched...

NRG eVgo, a subsidiary of CleanTECH San Diego member company NRG Energy, opened the first Freedom Station® in the City of Carlsbad on Feb. 4, 2014. The Freedom Station, located at the Carlsbad Premium Outlets®, features a 480-volt direct current (DC) fast charger that enables...

San Diego will illuminate its downtown district with GE Lighting's intelligent lighting system, including LED street lighting, making it the first city in the United States to adopt GE's LightGrid technology. The new system of 3,000 city lamps, set to be in place by spring...

The media today is reporting that the European Union (EU) is preparing to ease some of its climate change mitigation rules. The political reasoning is that the EUs of greenhouse gas (GHG ) reduction efforts, which are driven by a desire to achieve a long...

The recent “60 Minutes” largely negative piece on the clean technology sector has precipitated both anger and anxiety from those of us who believe in the future of clean technology, both as a vehicle to a more sustainable world, and as an economic driver. From...

On Dec. 16, CleanTECH San Diego hosted its Meet & Greet with San Diego City Councilman Kevin Faulconer as part of its Leadership Series. The program aims to educate Councilman Faulconer on the region's cleantech cluster and provides CleanTECH San Diego Members with an opportunity to...